FireEyes Help

SimulAT - Simulate Assistive Technology

The SimulAT feature of FireEyes generates a text representation of the web page similar to how a screen reader would read the web content.

The first option under the SimluAT tab is Display. This includes a drop-down menu to select portions or elements of the page to analyze. Choices include:

• The Entire document
• All Page structure elements
• Specific types of page structure elements such as Headings, Tables, or Frames and iframes
• All Page content elements
• Specific page content elements such as Links, Images, or Area tags

Selecting the Entire Document option and activating the Run button will reinterpret the document content in the same manner as JAWS would read it.

Selecting Headings and activating Run, will provide a list of all of the headings on the page. The same can be done for tables, frames, links and so on. This allows you to ensure that these elements are being rendered correctly by assistive technologies. For instance, SimulAT can be used to ensure that all graphics have alt-text and that the alt-text provided is meaningful. The Tables option will show how a table would be read, and the Area Tags option will show the alt attributes for the areas of an imagemap.

After SimulAT generates a reading for the selected tag type, you are able to select an element and:

• View the individual element. The element will be highlighted in the webpage view.
• Inspect the individual element. Activating the Inspect button will bring up the Firebug HTML tab.
• Add Issues manually related to that element. The add a manual issue form will be pre-populated with the target.